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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.